skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And... what would that be?
Clarence Saunders lived quite an exciting life.

There is an excellent episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed[0] that tells his story well.

[0] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
As a developer how much time do you spend on tech debt?
Along these lines, bad-faith actors can plan racist messages as a pretext for banning arbitrary communities
Private platforms, can't do shit about them, yada yada yada.

That's bullshit.

The principle, and thus the the right to free speech is the fundamental value of a free country. Hiding behind the "they're a private company, they can do what they want" is nonsense when the vast majority of communication flows through them.

I'm wondering though what happens if section 230 was modified to only allow for filtering and removal of spam (I'm expecting wiggle here in how it's abused) and illegal content.
To be honest all these companies need to pull their heads out of their own asses and train up people like they used to. They expect the market, more specifically individuals to train themselves so the company can just go outside and shake a tree and get 20 people to apply who have trained themselves without a guarantee that they will be employed. So people pick the better odds for themselves, and the priority for diversified labor is not matching what these greedy companies want. So they'll have to train people up to change the individual's incentives.
Really - is a TV network much different from a subreddit where only the mods can post?
You seem to have an axe to grind. What you say is not supported by the evidence. It's definitely true in some cases, but not the main reason for the changes.

See the NPR article I link to, and many others.
> Client side decorations have the huge disadvantage that you can't easily close unresponsive applications. To do so would need the compositor to somehow detect if an application has crashed or not which means nothing less than literally solving the halting problem.

You can close unresponsive applications whether they repaint their decorations or not; anyway, chances are, that when they don't repaint their decorations, they won't process your WM_DELETE_WINDOW anyway.

What you can't do without CSD is synchronized painting of decorations and window content. With CSD, you can have pixel-perfect window, without it, you have to coordinate between several processes and chances are you won't do it all in 16,6 ms (for 60 Hz).

> Some niche window managers today have a more active community than the whole Wayland ecosystem.

Sorry, no. Wayland is quite big now, just some niche DEs ignore it, due to lack of manpower, not by principle.

> In fact the most popular haskell program is a window manager.

If I had to guess, I would say that the most popular haskell program is a batch document converter. It is used ouside X11 too. Not that haskell usage is an relevant popularity indicator.

> So something must be right about enabling the modularity that makes window managers possible.

There are wayland compositors aiming exactly for that. See Sway.
What I really objected to, was that I would be liable for estimated loss of profits.

I can usually handle 1 or 2 page contracts but when I see something like this, "What other thing are in here." and I give it to my lawyer.
> However Signal is open source.

Not a telegram fan at all but their clients are also open source
It can be hard to get TDD/BDD to cover enough of the aspects of a code-base (depending on what the code is doing). SQLite is special particularly in just how comprehensive their test suite. In particular, note that SQLite's full test suites is very much their secret sauce (and is not open-source). You can get a sense of the amount of effort it takes the create and maintain that type of test suite for something like SQLite.
Trading stocks is not the 1st amendment where we basically say we don’t really care about the outcome of your speech (as an individual). Say what you want even if its dumb and hurts you.

With capital markets...there absolutely is a goal, and it’s not speculation/gambling. The goal is to have a place where corporations can raise capital and investors can hold them accountable for how they return value to them...and then a billion rules to make that as fair and functional (not equitable) as possible.

I don’t get the argument that what these guys are doing is somehow noble, or to be encouraged. Completely unregulated non-purposeful markets are not helpful....we did that 100 years ago...thats why we have all the rules we do to make markets function to the end.
Yep, though the man could just be their lawyer saying hey this was our target market so let’s do our own meta risk mitigation here.
Allowing trading in only one direction is clearly market manipulation and should be slammed by the SEC.
That's not really how the stock market works. The money does indeed "vanish" insofar as it was ever there to begin with.
Write to each of the political parties to express your position. At least to the parliamentary parties that you would consider voting for.

The most powerful thing you can do, right now, is make the parties aware that this is important to your vote.

Try to reach a person - contacting individual politicians is best. Although, they should have a staff to deal with your writing and reply directly to your point, especially before the election. You might expect to be added to a spammy mailing list.

Bearing in mind that the national MPs do not have direct power over this within the EU, they should still have a political position.

Vote for a party which supports your position (check also: https://www.kieskompas.nl/nl/tk21/)
Total volume of dogecoin is ~128 billion coins, not 128k.
But who's buying if you can't buy? Limiting the audience that can buy reduces demand, and thus the price will be negatively impacted.
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This is not just a WSB thing anymore, it was front-page news on every news service yesterday.
I do - it's a market with existing players that are extremely challenging (or impossible) to integrate with successfully. More players in the space could be a large benefit.
Except the overlap in many of those communities is HUGE. Each isn't a drop in the bucket, they are often the same drop
Exactly. CNBC is the biggest market manipulator with a huge mouthpiece. Anytime Cramer mentions a stock in favorable terms it goes up, at least short term. Meanwhile we know that he is friends with hedge funds and at least part of time is probably taking positions before going on TV.

We give that a free pass but suddenly a loosely-organized internet forum is a problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if I'm buying a call, my downside is limited to the price that I pay for the option no?

Obviously if people are selling options / etc. downside can be uncapped.
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I would have imagined you could read the business category of any major news outlet on any given day and see the fallibility, but I think you're right that that may be a common interpretation of this event.
Thanks for the links and references! I am very interested in these things. One of the things I hate most about being a software developer is the tool infrastructure. I want documentation that’s accurate (actually, that would save probably at least 50% of my time), interactive documentation and debugging, little GUIs that help with various tasks, etc.

I am actually working on my own vision of this, but it is slow going.
those are all silicon valley investment firms. they don't have any kind of direct relationship with hedge funds that specialize in short selling.

this is essentially saying "discord has investors, and the stock market also has investors, so they're colluding". there isn't a real connection here
> So there was enormous real progress over the time-span separating us from the medievals.

We'll see how nations of soy-boys fare in the next major war.

The Chinese PLA is undermined with one-childs, "princelings", and untested hardware so that it's questionable if they can fight.

The US Army struggles annually to find normal-weighted applicants. I know one delusional Gen Z who wanted to apply at 320 pounds.

Sadly the recruiters can be court-martialled for missing their quota, so they're under intense pressure to convince superiors to accept applicants with disqualifying items like tattoos, serious vision problems, etc. but who can still do a pushup.

Japan basically lost WW2 because most Americans at the time had high school education and familiarity with farm equipment, so almost anybody could be trained to fly an airplane.

Meanwhile Japan started training boys at 14 like ninjas and just ran out of trained pilots after Midway (they had 10,000 fighter aircraft and nobody who could fly them except as kamikazis.)

The next major war will likely be between China and India over the Himalayan headwaters, which the CCP is damming for the notorious Xinjiang region, and this war will probably go nuclear.
Compared to those employed in an industry, few write about the history of trains, or wifi, or road building, and on and on. It's normal for only a few academics to be interested.

There are only a couple of fields that are different - media (movies/broadcast), military, medicine. Probably because of the built-in human drama that's easily accessible?

As others have mentioned, Computer Science has a little human drama but few have sacrificed their lives or appeared heroic. It's a pretty dry field to document - more similar to road building.
Telegram is opensource the same way Signal is - clients are opensource and server is not (Signal didn't have a source dump for awhile now).

But Telegram has one big advantage - they publish a public tdlib library with which you can easily build your own Telegram client.
They have it since before Blink migration, I still remember when they announced this feature. The implementation a bit different because back then screen resolution is not as good as today, now we can easily afford literally 2 tab rows.
No, it was a lesson I've learned hard in my own life. When I was younger I was caught up in the pinch of the 2008 market. I had to quit university and move across the country to find some work.

I harboured a lot of bitterness and built up ideals that were not based in reality. It took some time for me to realize that it's never as simple a situation as you want it to be, and no amount of pain inflicted against the simplified other that you've created for yourself will rectify anything.

Blindly attacking anything that resembles the enemy you've crafted in your own mind will just end up hurting a lot of others like yourself, and most of all: oneself.

For the record, it was Ghandi who said that. It's about rising above the condition of those who hurt you in order to not become the thing you resented. What do you benefit the world simply usurping your detractor(s)?
Citron mainly is one focus for sure. I'm sure someone knows why Melvin Capital is targeted.
Terrifying to my bank account currently
There are other ways of applying pressure. AWS hosting Wikileaks was not illegal but they were still pressured to stop hosting if they wanted lucrative hosting contracts with the federal government.

Now I doubt Reddit has huge contracts with the government, but I’m sure the government could find something to harass them with if it wanted to. Drive long enough and a cop will eventually find a reason to pull you over.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-webs...

http://scripting.com/stories/2010/12/28/usGovtABigUserOfAmaz...
To play devil's advocate....

> Increasing wealth inequality for several decades now

TV talking heads bemoan about this, but billionaires still remain the most admired people in this country (Trump, Musk, Gates, etc).

> older generations holding onto more wealth and power in society than ever before - with a large share of their wealth in the stock market

If there was anger at the older generation, we wouldn't have so many sacred cows regarding older people (social security and medicare). Average age of senator and house member has been growing over time. Hell, we just elected a 78 year old as president. How about before the revolution we just start with voting for younger people

> Wall Street is seen as entirely unaccountable due to 2008 bailout

Most people don't remember this. I'm surprised how rarely its actually discussed

> Pandemic this year has basically been a huge wealth transfer from normal people and small businesses towards large conglomerates and the wall street hedge funds who back them

This is mostly true but people don't see it that way. They're too busy yelling at people that refuse to wear masks or people that are forcing others to wear masks.

> Institutional trust is at historic lows, while online spaces become more and more regulated by those same institutions

Again, we elected a 40+ year veteran politician. House and Senate re-election rates are still 85%+ and we're ceding ever more of our authority to the [health] experts.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/04/01/yes-c...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Sees Battles Escalating with Apple on Privacy, Messaging
My guess is they are staying silent to avoid legal liability in the case that the run-up continues onwards in a significant manner.
I highly recommend you read "Innovator's dilemma" and this won't be that shocking to you.
I don’t think that’s the case, but even if it is for the stock markets broadly it isn’t for Robinhood. It’s not vanguard.
Sure, big frameworks existed back then, but they were all either

1. literally "frameworks" in the inversion-of-control sense — where your code is a script that runs "inside" the framework — and you don't ship the framework to your customers as part of your product, but rather walk them through getting it from its own vendor as a prerequisite step to installing your product (e.g. TeX); or

2. proprietary, not copyleft-licensed (e.g. game-console SDKs.)

If anyone has a good counter-example, I'm all ears :)
> people asserted their power financially

This is just wrong. Where was this power before? Stock trading platforms have been around forever. And, why to assert this power only on some of the stocks? It's just sheep chasing sheep
I say legally. A broker-dealer should be required to either give advanced notice of a suspension like this, or have a clearly upfront volatility metric that triggers it. (No, a TOS statement like, "We reserve the right to suspend trading at our discretion" is not a clear rule. It's a weasel clause)

Users would then know, in advance, if a particular ticker will be restricted. Either through specific advanced notice, or because they were told that all securities that exceed a volatility of X over Y time period will be restricted.

Whatever the rule, it can't be a snap decision that leaves users with no recourse.

If you're not an appropriate day-trading app, then don't act like one until you suddenly don't want to be one anymore. Make the rules in advance, communicate them, and let the market decide if you're appropriate for their needs.
https://phzoe.com/2020/03/04/dumbest-math-theory-ever/

https://phzoe.com/2020/10/05/geothermal-to-the-moon/

https://phzoe.com/2020/02/20/two-theories-one-ideological-ot...

There are may others. It's all over the place. The author denies the Stefan–Boltzmann law that contradicts her model meant to prove most heating is due to geothermal. She also does not believe in Fusion within the Sun, or that photon are particles (only waves, which is linked to the thermal radiation denial).

Additionally, the author mocks and attacks anyone contradicting her in the comments. Her argumentation revolves around throwing new theories after new theories that could help explain her impossible results, expecting others to provide the contradiction.

All-around extremely exhausting to argue with, bad faith, aggressive and ideologically driven.

Amidst all this, many election fraud allegations on the blog, beyond the subtext implying manipulation in this post article.
On Android you get no option, SE-Linux and seccomp are enabled by default and there are other measures in place that top any other Linux based OS.
Do you watch BBC iPlayer via any connected devices? If the answer is 'yes' then the BBC will still want their pound of flesh.
Sorry, no. Memes and chicken tenders, sure, but WSB doesn’t push any agenda. Pro or against. Stop misguiding people.
Yes. People are really not understanding unrealised gains.

It went past on Twitter that the Norwegian pension fund is up half a billion dollars as a result of this, because for some reason they'd been holding Gamestop for a while. Is that going to stick? No.
HFTs are not hedgefunds and generally are marketmakers.
> Maybe you are using Rust, but you actually really want a different language, one that doesn't focus so much on low level / performance?

That is very possible. But utilizing my experience and intuition, very rarely have I seen such meticulous and relentless pursuit for efficiency and a compiler that will kill most of your bugs after it successfully compiles your program like Rust. Maybe Haskell and OCaml are it as well but they have plethora of problems that Rust doesn't have. Maybe Nim and Zig? Only heard good things about those but never tried them.

> Haskell or Scala or F# come to my mind. I'm listing statically typed languages, because I assume you like those (otherwise, why Rust and not sticking to Elixir).

Personal / professional development. I started with C/C++ and Java 19 years ago and moved to dynamic languages at least 12 years ago and I felt that I want to have such a powerful language like Rust in my toolbelt again.
> Small contributions typically required hours of my time to properly test and validate them.

Exactly, a small patch can be very time consuming to review. Fully understand the author.
Coordinating a short position and shorting over 150% of the available stock is not market and price manipulation?
Fair enough, I can definitely see how reviewing contributed code to the required level of scrutiny would probably take at least as long, probably longer, as writing it in-house.
>If you put the wrong oil in your car because you got it for free, and your engine failed then whose fault is it? If it's the wrong grade then it's the wrong oil, even if it says it's "high performance*".

If someone gave you that oil under fraudulent pretenses then it would absolutely be their fault..

Now to say that Robinhood is engaging in outright fraud, but having your service expectations subverted like this is going to rightfully piss people off whether or not the underlying service is free. There's all sorts of malfeasance that Robinhood could engage in with its free service that would clearly be unethical/illegal.
Whenever we have a discussions on Browser and topic of too many Tabs comes up, there are always a small portion of HN user suggest to me and those who uses lots of tabs are using the browser Wrong, ADHD or having mental problem.

And should seek changing workflow or treatment.

I currently have a relatively small number of Tabs opened, 150. I guess to those who only have a few tabs open at max think of us as crazy or alien.
I can see all the pressure being applied to me to sell. Clearly some very rich and influential people want me to sell. This alone is enough to convince me not to. I don't care if it's dumb or it will go down to $0. I'm not budging.
I am just waiting how long before Reddit itself gets sued over this. Let alone how long before someone comes for the users and gets a court to have reddit surrender information.

how this plays out is going to be very interesting and more so for who supports which side
> This idea that the common man needs to be protected from himself is paternalistic

Interesting word choice. Conservative wording of "common man", but liberal wording of "paternalistic". I don't mind the former but I do wonder how a father would be more inclined to protect a child from itself than a mother; if anything, I would find maternalistic a more fitting descriptor.
It seems very unwise to plan your career around using a particular language, especially a niche language such as Clojure.

For longevity as a developer, it's important to become comfortable with picking up new languages and tools as necessary.

A better strategy for career planning is to decide which domains you find interesting, and then focus on the skills and tools that are used in those domains.
I bought at $350. It's all about the hodl.
The homeless drug addict who became a professor
I don't really buy that hypothesis.

Evidence: I ultimately did get rid of the calculator, by selling it for $1. It's the same trick that many of my acquaintances have set on. Any transfer of cash at all seems to eliminate this kind of behavior.

If it were really just about rational economic agents trying to negotiate a better deal, then you would expect the opposite. The person, having now given money in exchange for the item, would expect to get even more in return.
Secret Chats are three instead of two steps (not four steps like the article says), why make such a drama about it?
What SEC rule is WSB violating? I've seen no evidence yet that there is any sort of pump and dump collusion, the speculative bubble / stick-it-to-the-market-manipulators deal on WallStreetBets seems to be fairly organically driven as many memes are. There's no rules that I can think of against "tulip mania" type speculative bubbles. If there were, a huge amount of people would have been in serious trouble for the 2008 real estate bubble / crash.

To be honest, I think the recent restrictions on trading specific stocks (on Robinhood etc.) is absolutely dumb. Apparently, the sort of crappy market manipulation that led to the 2008 Volkswagen "short squeeze" or the 2010 "flash crash" is absolutely fine because it was driven by traders. But an amateur mob performing the short squeeze must be stopped at all cost? What bullshit. Either the "casino" should be open to all, or rules that apply to the "amateur mob" should apply to the HFT and derivatives market as well.
What evidence? There was and is no evidence of systemic fraud
It’s happening. You can’t find GME on Robinhood unless it’s in one of your lists, and when you do it says “This stock is not supported in Robinhood”.

There are millions of users of this app, and it’s easy enough to verify - why the skepticism?
Hey, one of my Scouts did this - rescued a family from a burning car. Because he had the wit to do it, while others stood on the sidelines. Probably because he'd been actually trained in taking quick action, in leading by example. He was 16.

So I can see that folks may be paralyzed by indecision, even by the intensity of their feelings. Ok, 'normal' people want to help but probably don't because of a lifetime of holding back.
But they didn't. The oil just sat on the shelf, and they picked it out because it was free.
Agreed. A few more high profile en masse individual arbitration is the way to end the practice entirely.
No, advocates cite improved "price discovery". You know, the only rational reason why stock markets exist in the first place.
Speed, static types. Definitely not a general alternative.
Slight miscommunication -- what's happening is they're preventing any new positions from being opened. You can close positions, whether short or long.
One of the most popular posts on WSB right now is somebody bragging they're putting their entire life savings in GameStop. I personally know people buying Gamestop that shouldn't be. It's pretty scary.
> What made it worse was that King's son was involved in raping during the rape fest but somehow avoided getting raped himself.

Let's see if that's how this plays out.

Also, ignoring the fact that whilst the peasants are merely slapping each other on their wrists, they're really in fact looking to take the King who doesn't jive like them, to the guillotines.